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Another Question McClellan Raises: What Else Don’t We Know? |
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Some of Scott McClellan’s “revelations” tell us things we already know, others confirm things we suspected. As I have pointed out, we already knew (all you had to do was read the Washington Post in October 2002) that the Bush administration used propaganda to sell an unnecessary war in Iraq. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald said that he was unable to get to the bottom of the Scooter Libby-Valerie Wilson (Plame) scandal because sand was metaphorically thrown in his eyes, but we suspected the malfeasance went much farther than Libby. McClellan now tells us that Bush himself authorized selective leaking of classified information.Â
Congressman Robert Wexler is calling for McClellan to testify about Iraq and the Wilson scandal, so hopefully we will see further action. But I wonder what else we don’t know about–McClellan was not privy to every matter delved into by this secretive White House that has invited comparisons to the ultra-secretive Nixon administration. We still know very little about the administration’s illegal warrantless surveillance program — who was spied on? What was done with the information that was obtained from telephone calls and emails? We don’t know all the details behind waterboarding, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, or extraordinary rendition. And there may be other things we simply don’t know about at all.
Dick Cheney’s Vice Presidency brings to mind Soviet premiers–this guy even managed to keep it on the down low for 24 hours when he shot someone in the face. How much power has Cheney really wielded? What was his precise role in the Wilson scandal, and the other matters I mentioned?
We may never know everything about this administration, unless Laura Bush decides to turn state’s evidence.Â
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